Theodore Pratt Collection
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Miss Dilly Says No
Type: Text
Year: 1945, 1945
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Farrell Publishing Corporation
Full Text: • • • • • The Cause of Childless Marriage • • • • • • • • • • • • Maclean's Help for Women in Debt • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alissa Keir It's Good to be Discontented • • • • • • • • • • • • Dale Carnegie The Truth About Margarine • • • • • • • • • • • …
Conch Boy
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: CONCH . BOY By THEODOR£ PRJs.'l?T ,-... The spiny lobster• milled ab")Ut in the 11v well of the boaf t as ./ if they knew, and protested, that they were head d for the kitchen or the hot l in Key W st. W1oey sat by the well , resting from long diving for …
I Jes' Goin'
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: From ~he New Yorker and Perils In Provence. I JES ' GOIN ' In the newspaper one morning a good many years ago when my wife and I first went to Florida to live, we head of the lynching of a Negro that had taken place the night before in a locality not far …
No Regrets for a Switch to Writing for Softbounds
Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article clipped from The Chicago Tribune
Full Text: No Regrets for a Switch to Writing for Softbounds By Theodore Pratt ' [Author of "The Barefoot Mailman" and other novels, ,including a forthcoming paperback original, " The Lovers of Pompeii."] FTER HAVING 19 hardbound novels published, in I have …
The Process of Becoming an Artist
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Chesterfieldian
Full Text: Page 242 TH .E CHESTE.RFIE.LDIAN The Process of Becoming An Artist By TED PRATT ing in the Woman's Home Companion magazine." T was a hot afternoon and I was contemplat"My father was glad of my inclination for any I asked Mr. Hitchcock of his boyhood days …
House Party Hotel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in unknown magazine
Full Text: Driftwood-" carnival of sea fragments and castle of discarded used parts." Jfouse Partv Jfote/ by Theodore Pratt paintings by Marion Terry the Florida east coast, at Vero M Beach, is a collection of four rustic buildings IDWAY DOWN that look as if they …
The Mad Palace
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: \ \ 1 0 he ·t ,1red eyee or hi coaaack agtgta ver ttw S...•nae wh1 te lotc my·a terio ely t,hrough he beeau d•tined tt wa• un r eant. " n worn tl t. Ob hie Nt quaver• y an eep race blt n leanly le ea1a,{ \ht a1r or Yeniureao andlr la • om he JOU eee • ft …
Passport
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: / I Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. PASSPORT I was definitely dis·turbed when the authorities, upon my arrival in the Spanish tov1n where I took up temporary residence, requested my passport with the information that they would keep it …
The Not Too Gentle Art of Play-Reading
Type: Text
Year: 1927, 1927
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Copy of article from Theater Magazine
Full Text: The Not Too Gentle Art of Play-Reading An Inside Exposition of What Happens to Plays in Theatrical Offices and the Types of Authors Who Submit Their Scripts By Theodore Pratt S O many other things have claimed to be arts that a play-reader is tempted to …
Miss Understanding
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ( A Play 1n one Aot) By fheodo~o Pra~t 'l'heodoro Pratt 81 Horatio tree\ Jew Yo:rk• !f. Y. ntory and dialogue OoPJ~ight Wld07 title Of ,. All F'or AJ't . • ters: 0 y L • - j t littl lo . 1~1 t:.eying oer ot 1r lliea fl •a ubl1o1ty rom o t th , 1l1. ~h1n b …
The Big Bubble
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
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The Infidelities of Mr. Winkle
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE INFIDELITIES OF MR. WINKLE It was during the war that being unta1thtul to hie w1te. r. Winkle had h1a first brush with He did not dream such a th1ng would ever come about when he was called up tor a physical examination 1n the draft or men between …
Spain Through the Keyhole
Type: Text
Year: 1933, 1933
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Clippings from a column from The Daily Palma Post
Full Text: THE DAILY PALMA POST, PAL\'IA DE MALLuR SPAIN THROUGH THE KEYHOLE (Madrid) By THEODORE PRATT Madrid was once known for pos- crossing the filthy palm even with sessing an assertive king and copper, the cough is cured imme- / • run h an d 1n • h an d w1•th …
Lion with Integrity
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: LION WITH INTEGRITY By THEODORE PRATT When Evia Massie phoned him, George at first didn't know who was on the wire. Even when at .h is inquiry she said her name a second time, his memory made no connection. "It's Evisl" cried. unon't yot1 remember the h …
Burlesque Bands of Spain
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I I t I f I I I ~Y-•": /" • -~ t / 'r 6--rnajorca, Spain. 'I,· ~ ~I ~ , ,,,.~ ,;,' .,p ,f "Ab so so de s'espadella, Diuen que hi fi bon ca.ntl. Ab so s6 de s 'espadella, Diuen ~ue hi f~ bon canta'. Y de siara :p~, Colque toch a so~ gonella." A student of …